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Advisory panel backs $250,000 ESAP recommendation to protect 4,285-acre Echo Canyon ranch
Summary
Summit Land Conservancy presented a multi-year conservation easement proposal for a 4,285-acre Wright family ranch in Echo Canyon; the Eastern Summit advisory committee voted to forward a positive recommendation that $250,000 in ESAP funds be allocated toward acquiring the easement.
Summit Land Conservancy asked Eastern Summit’s Agriculture Preservation and Open Lands Advisory Committee on Jan. 11 to support a conservation easement covering 4,285 acres in Echo Canyon, and the committee voted to forward a positive recommendation that $250,000 in ESAP funds be allocated toward the purchase.
Robin Lyons of Summit Land Conservancy told the committee the Wright family has ranched the property for more than a century and that the proposal would protect springs, water infrastructure and wetlands that feed Echo Creek and the Weber River. Lyons said the property is zoned AG-80 (one development…
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